For Christian journalist Lloyd Mackey, retiring from his longtime position as a faith/political reporter on Parliament Hill marks a new chapter he hopes will have a lasting impact on the Canadian Christian community.

Bob Cates is a Canadian juggling champion – and a Christian. For the last 20 years he has worked as a full-time comedic performer. Cates was nominated for best variety act at the 2014 Canadian Comedy Awards.

Sept/Oct Issue

Members from three First Nations language groups – Plains Cree, Oji-Cree and Naskapi – took part in a recent weeklong workshop designed to help both beginner and more experienced translators improve their skills. (Sept/Oct 2015)

As soon as he read in the Winnipeg newspaper about a nearby First Nation that needs a permanent, all- weather road to connect its island home to the mainland, Steve Bell knew he had to get involved. (Sept/Oct 2015)

July/August Issue

An array of solar panels longer than five football fields will provide a small Bible college in northeast Saskatchewan with all electrical power it needs. And pay for itself in a decade. (July/Aug 2015)

For Christian journalist Lloyd Mackey, retiring from his longtime position as a faith/political reporter on Parliament Hill marks a new chapter he hopes will have a lasting impact on the Canadian Christian community. (July/Aug 2015)

May/June Issue

There may be a thousand Teen Challenge units across the world, but Teen Challenge Quebec (Defi Jeunesse Quebec, DFQ) may be the only one to produce a million pounds of vegetables a year. (May/June 2015)

The primary ministry of the three-member Christian band Broken Walls (www.brokenwalls.com) is to break down the walls between the First Nations people of Canada and non-Aboriginal people. (May/June 2015)

The first students will graduate in June from a unique culinary program created through a partnership between Christian Horizons (www.christian-horizons.org), an organization that empowers individuals with exceptional needs, and Humber College, a polytechnic college in Toronto. (May/June 2015)

The Key First Nation Reserve near Canora, Sask., is much different today than it was 15 years ago when First Nations pastors Allan and Carole O’Soup returned to the area and established Almond Tree Ministries (www.almondtreeministries.com). (May/June 2015)

Mar/Apr Issue

Far in the northeast of India, nestled between Bangladesh and Burma, is the state of Mizoram, home to the remote mountain village of Darzo. If Stuart Spani’s hopes are realized, that’s where a medical revolution will start that could change the lives of millions around the world. (Mar/Apr 2015)

Goliath is a bully, the lost sheep is a wandering goat, and Job’s trials appear as a Kenyan dry season in Winnipeg filmmaker Paul Plett’s series of Kid Shorts films (www.ode-productions.com). Plett grew up on the mission field watching the relief and development work his parents did with the Mennonite Central Committee. (Mar/Apr 2015)

The youth protecting youth club at the University of Victoria in B.C. has found itself in a harmonious working relationship with a strange bedfellow – the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA). (Mar/Apr 2015)

January/February Issue

The focal point of the platform at Guelph, Ont.’s Church at The Manor is not an altar, but a stripper’s pole. Yet the protrusion poses no obstacle for Jack and Sharon Ninaber. The husband and wife ministry team simply take turns standing beside it each Sunday afternoon, to lead worship, to preach and to pray. (Jan/Feb 2015)

Bob Cates is a Canadian juggling champion – and a Christian. For the last 20 years he has worked as a full-time comedic performer. Cates was nominated for best variety act at the 2014 Canadian Comedy Awards. (Jan/Feb 2015)

A few years ago it occurred to Conway that pastors were alone and could be “better together.” In conversations with other Halifax pastors, he noticed a consistent theme of “being in the trenches … it would make a big difference to know someone else is there beside you.” (Jan/Feb 2015)

From outside, the building still looks somewhat like a bank, as it was built to be over a century ago. Inside is quite another story. The open, sunlit space is redolent with the aromas of coffee, fresh-baked muffins and homemade entrees, and filled with people from all walks of life, meeting and eating together. (Jan/Feb 2015)

When many Canadians think of Samaritan’s Purse (www.samaritanspurse.ca), the Calgary-based Christian relief and development organization, they imagine children in developing countries receiving shoeboxes from Operation Christmas Child – not children in Northern B.C. playing foosball after school in an old restaurant. (Jan/Feb 2015)